Smartphone shipments break records in 2012

Smartphone sales exceeded 200 million units in the last quarter of 2012 – the most ever sold in
a three-month period – bringing the annual total up to 671 million, according to Juniper Research.

The biggest selling supplier was Samsung, said the research. It sold 63 million smartphones in
the fourth quarter (Q4), over 40 million of which were its flagship Galaxy
S III device, and accounted for 30% of all shipments.

The research also showed the mixed bag of results coming from Nokia. It managed to sell 6.6
million smartphones in the three months, but while its flagship Lumias
slowly began to build a following with 4.4 million shipments, its Symbian-based handset sales fell
dramatically to just 2.2 million.

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